{"product_id":"mason-dixon-thomas-pynchon-paperback","title":"Mason \u0026 Dixon -- Thomas Pynchon, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, and major caffeine abuse. We follow the mismatched pair--one rollicking, the other depressive; one Gothic, the other pre-Romantic--from their first journey together to the Cape of Good Hope, to pre-Revolutionary America and back, through the strange yet redemptive turns of fortune in their later lives, on a grand tour of the Enlightenment's dark hemisphere, as they observe and participate in the many opportunities for insanity presented them by the Age of Reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Thomas Pynchon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1\/3\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 784\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.35 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.3\" H x 5.57\" L x 1.34\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780312423209\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kotton Kandy Skies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51738620756267,"sku":"9780312423209","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/2978\/5899\/files\/9780312423209.jpg?v=1774843385","url":"https:\/\/2trc11-eq.myshopify.com\/products\/mason-dixon-thomas-pynchon-paperback","provider":"Kotton Kandy Skies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}